Three extra folks seemed in courtroom Tuesday on fees attached to contemporary looting downtown, together with a girl already accused of the similar crime days prior to and a person who allegedly mentioned he was once stressed into it.
Gabrielle McGriff — a mom of 4 who serves at a Maywood eating place — organized on-line to promote the $1,400 boots for $1,100, however was once unknowingly talking with undercover officials who arrested her and her boyfriend Monday at a Far South Side McDonalds, Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy mentioned.
Boutique Brunello Cucinelli, the Rush Street retailer the lady stole from, sustained $1 million in damages from ultimate week’s looting, prosecutors mentioned.
McGriff was once ordered her hung on $5,000 bail for robbery. Her boyfriend, Cornelius Lyons, additionally charged with robbery, was once ordered hung on $2,000 bail.
McGriff, 29, had simply seemed in courtroom ultimate week for allegedly looting a downtown Macy’s Aug. 10.
In that case, she advised investigators she was once downtown with pals when she noticed folks within the closed retailer and mentioned, “F— it,” and went it, Murphy mentioned. She allegedly took 4 shirts, however dropped them when she was once faced by means of officials who chased her to a vestibule, the place she was once arrested.
Another guy allegedly advised investigators he broke the window of a Gold Coast Hermes of Paris on Aug. 10 and stole a handbag “because of peer pressure,” prosecutors mentioned.
Donell Brandon, a 30-year-old laborer at a Far South Side steel corporate, mentioned “his buddy called him and said that everyone was meeting downtown,” Murphy mentioned in courtroom Tuesday. “He said they decided to meet at Hermes. He said that once they went there, he decided to do what everybody else was doing.”
Brandon attempted promoting the bag at the on-line market OfferUp, however as an alternative organized to promote the undercover regulation enforcement who organized to fulfill him at the West Side, the place he was once arrested Monday with the stolen bag, Murphy mentioned.
Judge John F. Lyke Jr. ordered Brandon hung on $3,000 bail for retail robbery, looting and housebreaking. Lyke mentioned the person “appears to be doing well in life” and warned him to “get back on the straight and narrow.”
On Monday, seven folks have been charged with prison counts in connection to contemporary looting.